Electric motor



R. H. WILLIAMS.

ELECTRIC MOTOR.

APPLIQATION FILED AUG.23, 1918.

1,432,584. Patented Oct. 17,1922.

2 SHEETSSHEET 1- R. H. WILLIAMS.

ELECTRIC MOTOR.

. 1918. 1,432,584. Patented Oct. 17,1922.

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nminmmm ii n Patented Oct. 17, 1922.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE. I

RICHARD H. WILLIAMS, 0F RICHMOND, INDIANA.

I ELECTRIC MOTOR.

Application filed August 23, 1918; Serial No. 251,136.

.the invention, such as will enable others skilled in theart towhich it appertains to make and use thesame. l

I The object of the invention is to provide a relatively simple, inexpensive and efiicient motor having the maximum driving power for the cubical space occupied, wherein the parts subject to deterioration, such as the magnets, windings and so forth, are standardized so as to be readily interchanged and.

replaced, wherein vibration in operation is minimized together with friction and the possibility of loss of current energy by grounding or short circuiting, and wherein especially the system of winding and conmeeting the elements is simplified so as to reduce the cost of manufacture and maintenance. 1

. Further objects and advantages will appear in the course of the following descrlption of the preferred embodiment, it being understood that changes in form, proportion and details may be resorted to within the scope of the appended claims without departing from. the spirit of the invention.

. In the drawings:

' Figure 1 is a sectional view of the motor. Figure 2 is a diagrammatic view of one of the armatures illustrating graphically the windings and connections.

Figure 3 is a view of the transmission gearing.

V Figure 4 of one of the commutators and related brushes. I I

Figure 5 is a fragmentary detail sectional view on an enlarged scale of the central portion of the motor on the plane of Figure 1 to show the transmission mechanism and related features.

Within a suitable casing 10 having a base 11 is mounted a shaft 12 carrying the oppositely revoluble armatures 13 and 14, one of which serves by reason of the relation and windings as a field magnet for the other, the hubs 15 and. 16 being respectively keyed to said shaft as shown at 17 and mounted upon a sleeve bearing 18 which carries a disk support 19 for the planetary gears 20.

said sleeve bearing is fixed in the seat 21 of the casing by a key 21 and the master gears 22 and-23 which mesh with said planetary gears, are carried respectively by the hubs 15 and 16. Preferably the transmission gearing is arranged in a housing 24 to which may be connected any suitable lubricating device 25. Also prefer-ably the housing is fitted at its inner edges in annular seats 26 in the hubs of the armatures, as shown in Fi ure 1.

A commutator 27, consisting as in the ordinary practice of a plurality of plates, corresponding with the number ofmagnets in the armature, is employed for each armature,

andassociated therewith, as in the ordinary practice, are the brushes 28 supported by brush holders 29 which may be secured in any suitable manner to the casing as indicated at 30, The commutator adjacent hub 16 is screwed thereto by elements 27".

r In the form of motor illustrated, it being understood of course thatsubstantially the same construction and arrangement of parts with coils and connections may be employed as a dynamo, each armature consists of six magnets having cores 31*, and each core is provided with inner and outer independent coils. In the drawings, for convenience, these several magnet coils are designated consecutively from A to L and they are connected in series, in circuit with the commutator elements which are designated respectively from a to f. The corresponding brushes in the diagram are designated respectively from a to f inclusive, while the incoming and outgoing positive and negacoil of the next adjacent core are in series,

the connections being made so that said coils produce fields of opposite polarityto their respective cores.

As will be seen by reference to the diagram, the current entering through the connection 32 and the brush a passes to the commutator element a and is divided to traverse branch lead wires extending respectively to the winding A which is the inner coil of a positive or N magnet and the coil H which is the outer of another N or north magnet and from the coil A connection is made with the coil B of the next or negative or south magnet and thence with the commutator element (5. From the coil H connection is made with the coil G which is the inner of another negative or south magnet and thence to the commutator element (Z. Thus the current entering through the brush a is divided, the branchespussing to different pairs of coils represented respectively by the innerand outer-coils of in termediate magnets and the outer and inner coils of other intermediate magnets and 'thenceto the opposite commutator ielement, (Z (that is' to say opposite to the incoming commutator element). 'From the element d the current passes-from the brush d to the brush '6 through the connecting bridging element and thence to the commutator'element e, where again the'current 1s branched and the current sent through these "branches passes to other intermediate coils'siniilar to those above described namely the coilsI-and J andthecoils D and C and thence through both branches to the commutator element o from which the united currentpasses from brush 5 to brush 0 through the bridging connection to the commutator element 0 where again a branching of the current causes lil tfQ pass through other coilsot' other intermediate magnets represented at "E and F andthe coils L and K tofthe commutator element f where the current being united is carried through the brush 'f to the connection 33 and thence to the'otlier armature.

Obviously for an effective operation of the mechanism it is necessary that the polarity ofthe magnets shouldchange periodically in the course of progress of'each' armaturejthe change "occurring whenthe like or "corresponding magnets of the twoarinatures are in registration sothat there 'may "be repulsion as between the registering magnets and attraction, respectively, as between them and the succeeding magnets, respectively, of the other armature. Moreover, as both a rmaturesjmove, the same traveling in opposite directions, afch'ange n polarity must occur in one of the armatures after each magnet has traversed one-half of the distance represented by the interval between adjacent magnets of the same armature.

From the fore oin description. it will be understood that any of thema gnets may ,be removed for rewinding and'the latter may be accomplished with facility; there being'no the increased leverage.

"in each armature is merely illustrative and inay b'e' modifiedas required in practice without modification of the *princi'p'al oi sequence "inane-windings and connections as set forth.

Having described the invention, =1 claim ainter having oppositely revoluble armatures arranged "side by side, each armaiur ccnsistiag of a hub and *pl-uralitymf magnets, sha it common-to smear-matures,

asleeve in whichsaid shaft isjournaled; one er s id hubs [being rigidly secured to the shaft and the other hub beingrevoluble to the'sleeve ommutators, one'for each arma- "ture, one "of said comintitators being fixed Jon the shaft, the other commutator being revoluble'on the sleeve bearing, and rigid with the lastiiientionedhub, a casing for the motor, holders mountedby said casing through which said shaft extends and enclosing said commutators to efliect a compact arrangement, --brushes for the *commutators carried "bythe said holders, a gear wheel -iiaedon said shaft, a gear wheel revoluble on said sleeve and fixed "to the last mentionedhub, a planetary g'ear-=journaled on said sleeve and in mesh with said gear wheels, plates "on said hubs .havingopenings therethrough, extensions on said gear wheels entering said openings and being 'in 'bearing' con-tact with said plates, and a housing to enclose said gear wheels and gea said extensions having'se'at's to mount said housing. In testimony whereof I my-si-gnature in presence of two witnesses.

' RICHARD H. WVILLIAMS.

Witnesses fFIeiNcns S. WiLLiAMs, WVILIJI'Ai/i H. FISHER. 

